

They were initially released on Decemby, a corporation founded in 2001. The licenses differ by several combinations that condition the terms of distribution. There are several types of Creative Commons licenses.

CC provides an author flexibility (for example, he or she might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of a given work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author's work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that he or she (that author) has created. This video explains how Creative Commons licenses can be used in conjunction with commercial licensing arrangements A Creative Commons ( CC) license is one of several that enable the free distribution of an otherwise 'work'.
